Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 62 87
Rank change year-on-year +42 +25 +37
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 172 53 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.11% 3.04% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.23% 3.30% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 33 30
10th Percentile £413 £419 £474
25th Percentile £488 £490 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £682
90th Percentile £825 £793 £778
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £66.71 - £27.81

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,864 1,608 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.92% 92.36% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,286 1,030 1,491
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £447 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £46.29 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.13 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge 0 1 £550 -
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.56%) Confluence
2 7 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.81%) MS Visio
3 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.74%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.16%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.16%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.58%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.58%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.58%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.58%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.58%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.58%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.58%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.58%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (22.09%) Azure
2 20 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 19 (11.05%) AWS
4 10 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.81%) GCP
5 9 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.91%) SaaS
7 4 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.33%) ChatGPT
7 4 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.33%) Serverless
8 3 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.74%) Collibra
8 3 (1.74%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.74%) GitHub
8 3 (1.74%) IaaS
8 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (1.74%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.16%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Network Security
2 3 (1.74%) DHCP
2 3 (1.74%) DNS
2 3 (1.74%) Firewall
2 3 (1.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.58%) NAS
3 1 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.14%) Power BI
2 5 (2.91%) Metadata
2 5 (2.91%) Tableau
3 4 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.74%) Data Vault
4 3 (1.74%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.16%) MySQL
5 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.58%) Big Data
6 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.58%) Informix
6 1 (0.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 28 (16.28%) JIRA
2 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.58%) ERwin
3 1 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 80 (46.51%) Finance
2 74 (43.02%) Social Skills
3 42 (24.42%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (16.28%) Banking
5 18 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.49%) Front Office
8 6 (3.49%) Legal
9 5 (2.91%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.33%) Retail
11 3 (1.74%) Aviation
12 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.16%) Military
12 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.58%) Back Office
13 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 54 (31.40%) Analyst
2 37 (21.51%) Business Analyst
3 23 (13.37%) Senior
4 21 (12.21%) Architect
5 17 (9.88%) Lead
5 17 (9.88%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.40%) Consultant
7 10 (5.81%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (4.65%) Data Analyst
8 8 (4.65%) Senior Business Analyst
8 8 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.07%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.49%) Banking Analyst
10 6 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.91%) Cloud Architect
11 5 (2.91%) Data Business Analyst
11 5 (2.91%) Payments Analyst
11 5 (2.91%) Payments Business Analyst
11 5 (2.91%) Technical Analyst
12 4 (2.33%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.91%) LangChain
2 4 (2.33%) LangGraph
3 3 (1.74%) .NET
3 3 (1.74%) REST
4 2 (1.16%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.16%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.58%) A2A Protocol
5 1 (0.58%) JSON
5 1 (0.58%) Kafka
5 1 (0.58%) Middleware
5 1 (0.58%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.58%) Next.js
5 1 (0.58%) OpenID
5 1 (0.58%) Pandas
5 1 (0.58%) Playwright
5 1 (0.58%) React
5 1 (0.58%) SAML
5 1 (0.58%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.58%) Spring
5 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.56%) Onboarding
3 12 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.49%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.33%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.74%) PMI
6 3 (1.74%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.91%) Windows
2 4 (2.33%) Linux
3 3 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.58%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (29.65%) Agile
2 36 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (18.60%) Migration
5 26 (15.12%) Decision-Making
5 26 (15.12%) DevOps
6 25 (14.53%) AI
6 25 (14.53%) Analytics
6 25 (14.53%) Workshop Facilitation
7 22 (12.79%) Project Delivery
7 22 (12.79%) Project Management
8 21 (12.21%) Business Analysis
8 21 (12.21%) Risk Management
9 19 (11.05%) Change Management
9 19 (11.05%) Roadmaps
10 18 (10.47%) Requirements Gathering
10 18 (10.47%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (9.88%) Process Improvement
12 16 (9.30%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 17 (9.88%) SQL
2 10 (5.81%) Python
3 7 (4.07%) PowerShell
4 6 (3.49%) Java
5 3 (1.74%) C#
5 3 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.16%) Korn
7 1 (0.58%) C++
7 1 (0.58%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.58%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
7 1 (0.58%) R
7 1 (0.58%) Swift
7 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.86%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.30%) Degree
4 7 (4.07%) PMI Certification
4 7 (4.07%) PMP
5 6 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.33%) CBAP
8 3 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.16%) CESG Certified Professional
9 2 (1.16%) CFA
9 2 (1.16%) CISSP
9 2 (1.16%) ISEB
9 2 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.58%) CEH
10 1 (0.58%) CISA
10 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.47%) Data Quality
1 18 (10.47%) QA
2 10 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.23%) GDPR
4 6 (3.49%) NIST
4 6 (3.49%) PMO
5 5 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.91%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (2.33%) GRC
6 4 (2.33%) Solvency II
7 3 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.74%) ISO 20022
7 3 (1.74%) SLA
8 2 (1.16%) ISO 8583
8 2 (1.16%) NIST 800
8 2 (1.16%) PSD2
9 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.58%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (1.74%) Active Directory
1 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.58%) Docker
3 1 (0.58%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (4.65%) Terraform
2 4 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.58%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (0.58%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.58%) vMotion
Vendors
1 31 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.81%) SAP
3 8 (4.65%) Oracle
3 8 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.07%) Databricks
5 4 (2.33%) Google
6 3 (1.74%) Charles River
6 3 (1.74%) CyberArk
6 3 (1.74%) Informatica
6 3 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.74%) VMware
7 2 (1.16%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.16%) Remedy
7 2 (1.16%) Talend
7 2 (1.16%) Workday
8 1 (0.58%) Avature
8 1 (0.58%) Datto
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.58%) Sparx